The aggregate economic impact of any developmental project depends on its effects within the chosen administrative region as well as its economic spillovers into other regions. However, little is known about how these spillovers propagate through geographic, ethnic and road networks. In this...

This paper analyzes the role of networks in the spatial diffusion of local economic shocks in Africa. We show that road and ethnic connectivity are particularly important factors for diffusing economic spillovers over longer distances. We then determine the key players, i.e., which districts are...

This evaluation studies EU strategies and interventions in support to the transport sector in Africa during the period 2005-2013 taking into account EU’s legal instruments and official communications, international agreements, regional and national cooperation frameworks, other official...

The interaction between transport and social welfare is one of the most complex problems in Africa. It is a challenge of intertwined disciplinary issues of science — both social and natural sciences. It begs interdisciplinarity. This paper explores the future of interdisciplinarity in research...

Male identity and motor-mobility are deeply intertwined across much of the globe but nowhere is this relationship more strongly in evidence than in Africa. On the African continent, road transport work has always appeared, in essence, to be a masculinist domain: it is almost always men who are...